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Hardin County Commissioners Court meeting cancelled

A special meeting of Hardin County Commissioners Court previously announced for Tuesday, June 21, at 1:30 p.m. for the purpose of holding a budget workshop has been cancelled, according to an announced by County Judge Wayne McDaniel.

Alleged kidnapper and his victim arrested after car chase

Thursday, June 16, detectives with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division attempted to stop a black GMC truck after positively identifying one of the occupants as 28-year-old Kalynn Hallmark, of Nederland, “a known felon with an outstanding felony warrant,” JCSO reports.

Supreme Court sides with tribes in fight with Texas over authorized gambling on their lands

By Reese Oxner, The Texas Tribune June 15, 2022 "Supreme Court sides with tribes in fight with Texas over authorized gambling on their lands" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,...

Don't Mess with Texas

It’s said that everything is bigger in Texas and in the hilarious new PSAs for Don’t mess with Texas, singer, songwriter and actor Joe Jonas finds lassoing litter may be his biggest challenge yet.

Woman dies from injuries in fatal crash

A Hardin County woman was one of two people who died from injuries in a June 8 two-vehicle crash on FM 770 near the Hardin-Liberty county line. According to a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) press release, a preliminary investigation indicates that, on June 8 at approximately 5:28 p.m.

Sports shorts: Lamar Cardinals

A stellar freshman campaign came to a conclusion for Kenson Tate as he would make his national debut in the NCAA Track & Field Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on June 8. Tate would serve notice that he would have a bright future in the long jump as he earned second team All-American honors.

Sports Shorts: Fishing

The Lamar State College-Orange Bass Club duo of Trent Buchholtz and Dakota Posey traveled over 21 hours to fish the Strike King Lure Company Bassmaster College Series at Saginaw Bay in Michigan last weekend and qualified for the National Championship.

Don't wait until you're 70

Older adults across the country are bombarded with invitations to attend seminars that allegedly will clue them in on a supposed “secret” to maximizing their Social Security benefits.

SETCA All-Stars

Outgoing high school seniors will get one last chance to play the sport they love during the annual Southeast Texas Coaches Association Christus All-Star Classic.

Terminal 10-year-old honored by local law enforcement

Nearly every Jefferson County law enforcement agency joined an outpouring of officer support reverberating around the state and nation for a 10-year-old Houstonian with terminal cancer – a boy who had one request when visited by the Make-A-Wish Foundation: to become a police officer.